filesystem performance Btrfs on Intel Core i7-2600K testing with a Gigabyte Z68X-UD3H-B3 and Intel 2nd Generation Core Family IGP on Ubuntu 12.10 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Btrfs: Processor: Intel Core i7-2600K @ 3.70GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte Z68X-UD3H-B3, Chipset: Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 240GB SanDisk SDSSDX24 + 500GB Western Digital WD5000AAJS-5, Graphics: LLVMpipe, Audio: Realtek ALC889, Monitor: HP 2311, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B + Ralink RT2800 802.11n PCI OS: Ubuntu 12.10, Kernel: 3.5.0-18-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Cinnamon 1.6.6, Display Server: X Server 1.13.0, Display Driver: vesa 2.3.2, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 9.0 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: btrfs, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 XFS: Processor: Intel Core i7-2600K @ 3.70GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte Z68X-UD3H-B3, Chipset: Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 240GB SanDisk SDSSDX24 + 500GB Western Digital WD5000AAJS-5, Graphics: LLVMpipe, Audio: Realtek ALC889, Monitor: HP 2311, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B + Ralink RT2800 802.11n PCI OS: Ubuntu 12.10, Kernel: 3.5.0-18-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Cinnamon 1.6.6, Display Server: X Server 1.13.0, Display Driver: vesa 2.3.2, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 9.0 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: xfs, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Compile MB/s > Higher Is Better XFS . 506.28 |================================================================= Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create MB/s > Higher Is Better XFS . 213.47 |================================================================= Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Read Compiled Tree MB/s > Higher Is Better XFS . 960.03 |================================================================= Dbench 4.0 12 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better Btrfs . 1627.11 |======================================================= XFS ... 1821.50 |============================================================== Dbench 4.0 48 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better Btrfs . 1495.94 |================================= XFS ... 2842.28 |============================================================== Dbench 4.0 128 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better Btrfs . 1172.14 |======================================= XFS ... 1865.63 |============================================================== Dbench 4.0 1 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better Btrfs . 314.58 |========================================================= XFS ... 344.95 |=============================================================== Flexible IO Tester 1.57 Intel IOMeter File Server Access Pattern Seconds (Run Time) < Lower Is Better Btrfs . 159.81 |=============================================================== XFS ... 93.07 |===================================== FS-Mark 3.3 1000 Files, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better Btrfs . 213.75 |================================================== XFS ... 270.13 |=============================================================== Gzip Compression 2GB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better XFS . 12.72 |================================================================== IOzone 3.405 8GB Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better XFS . 408.48 |================================================================= IOzone 3.405 8GB Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better XFS . 472.24 |================================================================= PostgreSQL pgbench 8.4.11 TPC-B Transactions Per Second TPS > Higher Is Better XFS . 3620.87 |================================================================ Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 64MB Random Read - 32 Threads MB/s > Higher Is Better Btrfs . 12628.26 |============================================================= XFS ... 11913.53 |========================================================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 64MB Random Write - 32 Threads MB/s > Higher Is Better Btrfs . 299.16 |============================================================ XFS ... 314.23 |=============================================================== Unpacking The Linux Kernel linux-2.6.32.tar.bz2 Seconds < Lower Is Better XFS . 9.06 |===================================================================